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This site describes Malvern Priory organ, its  complete rebuild and redesign, together with details of recitals. You will find interesting photographs of the inside of the organ before rebuilding and during the work, together with details of music in the Priory, the Priory Choirs, CDs of the Choir and organ.

Director of Music:  David Iliff

Malvern Priory now has vacancy for an Organist

Click here for full details of the Job description

MALVERN PRIORY

ORGAN RECITALS

 

2008 SERIES

Follow this link for details of previous recitals

Saturday   22 March  12.00 noon*
James Wall

Hamand organ scholar, Malvern Priory

Tuba Tune

 C. S. Lang
Voluntary no. 6 Tomkins
Prelude Fugue and Chaconne in C Buxtehude
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her J.S. Bach
Ich ruf zu dir J.S. Bach
O Gott, du frommer Gott Brahms
Sonata no 2, 1st movement Hindemith
Finale in D minor Thiman
Toccata from Plymouth Suite Whitlock

Saturday   26 April  12.00 noon*

Christopher Allsop

Symphony No VI (1st & final movements)  Widor
Feux Follets  Vierne
Passacaglia Shostakovich
Berceuse (a la memoire de Louis Vierne) Cochereau
Gigue Fugue Bach

Monday   26 May  12.00 noon*

Benjamin Nicholas

Te Deum   Charles Tournemire
Farewell to Stromness Peter Maxwell Davies
Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV 548  J.S.Bach
Fantasie in E flat Camille Saint-Saens
Chant de Mai Joseph Jongen
Miroir Ad Wammes
Choral Varie sur 'Veni Creator' Maurice Durufle
March: The Stars and the Stripes J.P.Sousa

Tuesday   17 June  7.30pm
David Briggs

 Improvisations and showing of the 1925 silent film Phantom of the Opera

Symphony No 5 (Allegro Vivace, Adagio, Toccata)                   Widor

Friday   25 July  12.00 noon*
Jonathan Price

Christ Church, Bristol City

Two pieces from Opus 7 Barié
Le Cygne (from Carnival of the Animals)        Saint-Saëns
Sonata no. 1 in F minor     Mendelssohn
Cloister Garth & Elegy         Brewer
A Paean for Christ Church (2008)        John Marsh
Salix (from “The Plymouth Suite”)         Whitlock
March: “Dignity and Impudence” Whitlock

NEXT RECITAL

Monday   25 August 12.00 noon*

Keith Hearnshaw

Concert Organist

Overture Orpheus in the Underworld

Offenbach
Aria from Concerto Grosso No.12 Handel
Fantasia & Toccata in D minor Stanford
Chanson du Matin Elgar
Three Pieces Chauveaux
The Dam Busters March Coates

Saturday   18 October 12.00 noon

Autumn in Malvern Festival

John Scott-Whiteley

York Minster

Saturday   15 November 12.00 noon*

Mark Swinton

 Bath Abbey

* Duration 50/60min.  Free admission - retiring collection (Except David Briggs Concert )
Recitals given with large screen video projection - see photo above
LINK TO OTHER CONCERTS IN THE AREA: Malvern Concert Club
LINK TO FORTHCOMING ORGAN RECITALS:    Organ Recitals Listings
LINK TO CATHEDRAL AND CHURCH CHOIRS: Cathedral and Parish Church Choirs



Organs of Malvern Priory


ORGANS OF MALVERN PRIORY


A new book by Tony Hughes on the history of the Priory's organs including the recent rebuild. Illustrated with historic photographs and colour pictures of the rebuilt organ.


Price £3.50, including postage from
Dr A J Hughes
8 Birchwood Road
Malvern
WR14 1LD

 

 A CD of 26 Favourite Hymns click here for details

                   A CD of the rebuilt organ played by Andrew Wilson - click here for details

 


Details of the Priory Choir's CD S:  
  O Praise The Lord
Favourite anthems from the Choir's repertoire

Lift Up Your Heads

A CD of familiar and less familiar Advent, Christmas and Epiphany music with solo music played on the rebuilt organ
 

Contacts

Geoff Fearnehough - Recital Organiser; Website design  email office@greatmalvernpriory.org.uk

Musical Matters - email office@greatmalvernpriory.org.uk

Malvern Priory

Great Malvern Priory, nestling in the slopes of the Malvern Hills, Worcestershire, in the centre of England, is the main town church for the Malvern area. It has been described by Pevsner as a monastic church 'rarely built so sweepingly' and is of considerable architectural interest with styles from Norman to Perpendicular. Its treasures from mediaeval times include misericords, glazed tiles and some of the finest stained glass in the country.

The Priory serves an active and growing community, embracing a wide range of worship styles. It has an extensive variety of youth and musical groups, including a total of about 80 singers, juniors and adults, who can be called upon to sing the weekly services, all combining forces on special occasions. The organ is widely used by the church and the community in general; some five civic services and ten local school services per year are held, as well as concerts, organ recitals and teaching sessions.

More information on Malvern Priory can be found at http://www.greatmalvernpriory.org.uk

Music in the Priory

Director of Music:  David Iliff
 

Malvern Priory has two choirs of about 40 adults and 15/20 children:Priory service
1) Priory Choir - men and children
2) Priory Singers - mixed voice adults
In addition there is a Praise Group and an orchestra (children and adults).

The main choirs sing four-part anthems at each service and traditional canticles - (Stanford, Howells, Ireland, Dyson etc.).

Follow this link for more on the Priory Choirs

Follow this link for details of the Priory Choirs new CD - O Praise the Lord or Lift up your heads

In addition to the Priory services the choirs have, in recent years, sung for services at the cathedrals of Exeter, Bristol, Birmingham, Coventry, Lincoln, Winchester, Salisbury, Worcester, Ripon, Llandaff, Guildford and St David’s, and at other churches including St Michael’s Tenbury, Little Malvern Priory, Beverley Minster, Christchurch Abbey, Southwell Minster and Bath Abbey. These were either day, weekend or week visits .
 

Some Recent Anthems Sung at the Priory:
Bainton And I saw a new heaven
Byrd Ave verum corpus, Justorum animae
Durufle Ubi caritas at amor, Tantum ergo
Gibbons Almighty and everlasting God
Howells Like as the hart; A Spotless Rose
Mawby I will lift up my eyes
Palestrina Sicut cevus, Canite tuba
Philips Surgens Jesu
Stanford Ye choirs of new Jerusalem
Stravinsky Pater noster
Sumsion They that go down to the sea in ships
Tallis 0 nata lux, 0 Lord give thy holy spirit
Victoria Pueri Hebraeorum
Wood Expectans expectavi; 0 thou the central orb,;Hail gladdening light
Canticle settings
Howells 'Collegium Regale' Te Deum & Julbilate, Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis
Leighton Second service
Tomkins Fifth service
Stanford In C & G
Sumsion In G
Wood In D
Recent Voluntaries played at Malvern Priory :
Bach, Prelude & Fugue in E flat major
Bach, Fantasia & Fugue in G minor
Krebs, Prelude & Fugue in C
Alain, Litanies
Guilmant, Sonata No. 1 in D minor
Guilmant, Sonata No. 5 in C minor
Guilmant, March on a theme by Handel
Handel, Overture to ‘Occasional Oratorio’
Wills, Variations on Amazing Grace
Buxtehude, Prelude, Fugue & Chaconne in C
Hovland, Toccata on ‘Now thank we all our God’
Locklair, Rubrics
Reger, Dankpsalm
Howells, Psalm Prelude Set 1, No. 1
Walton, Crown Imperial
Mendelsohn, Sonata No. 2 in C

Bach Preludes and Fugues, Trio Sonata movements,
Chorale Preludes from Orgelbuchlein'and 'The 18'
Bridge Adagio in E
Buxtehude Praeludien, Chorale Preludes
Dubois Toccata in G, Marche des Rois Mages
Guilmant Noels, March on a Theme of Handel
Howells Master Tailis's Testament, Paean, Psalm Preludes, Rhapsody no.3
Messiaen Les Anges, Les Mages
Mulet Carillon-Sortie, Tu es petra
Rheinberger Sonata 4
Schumann Prelude no.6 on BACH
Stanford Postlude in D minor op.105 no.6
Vierne Final (Symphony no. 1), Carillon op.31 no.21)

Links

 The Malvern Priory website contains full information about the Church, its services and other activities.

Site visitors since December 2005

Photography: Geoff Fearnehough.  
Photographs of the Priory Choir in Coventry Cathedral, Procession in the Priory, Jack Lewis Memorial and Medal: John Willis

Copyright Malvern Priory Choirs. This site was updated in June 2008.